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Double Take. In Chillicothe, Mo., Mrs. Lee Marksbury, whose car had just turned over five times, crawled out unhurt, took a look at the debris, keeled over in a faint and cut her face...
...little Jones is browsing happily around in Astyparaean, a language no one has spoken for 50 centuries. There he encounters an old god, name of Zotz, who confers on him a weird and deadly power. Any insect, beast or man that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment...
Reds & Reuther. The biggest Ford local, Detroit's No. 600, has yet to count its votes. U.A.W. Vice President Richard T. Leonard, who had bargained for the plan, still had a faint hope that the votes of its 62,000 members would save pensions...
...brilliant red star Antares (450 times the diameter of the sun) in the constellation of Scorpio is a "double" star. Antares has a comparatively faint blue "companion" which is so close that it is almost impossible to photograph by itself. Irregularities in the earth's atmosphere make the images of the two stars dance around, forming "tremor discs" of light which overlap on the photographic plate during a long exposure...
...study of the spectro-photographs showed Struve several faint lines - which did not come from the Companion itself, but from space around it. Using the exact technique of spectroscopy, he proved that the lines were made by light waves characteristic of iron...